Bill Text: NY S05087 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires justices of the supreme court, judges of the county court and judges of the court of claims, regularly sitting in a criminal term or in a term with criminal as well as civil jurisdiction to visit the correctional facility with the highest population of incarcerated individuals in the county in which he or she is appointed or elected within two years of such appointment or election and every two years thereafter; requires a report on the conditions of such correctional facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S05087 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05087-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5087

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 22, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law,  in  relation  to  requiring  certain
          justices  and judges to visit the correctional facility with the high-
          est population in the county  in  which  such  justice  or  judge  was
          elected or appointed

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The judiciary law is amended by adding a new section  211-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  211-b. Correctional facility visitation requirements for judges and
     4  justices. 1.   The chief judge shall require  justices  of  the  supreme
     5  court,  judges  of  the  county court and judges of the court of claims,
     6  regularly sitting in a criminal term or in a term with criminal as  well
     7  as  civil jurisdiction to visit the correctional facility with the high-
     8  est population of incarcerated individuals in the county in  which  such
     9  justice  or  judge  is  appointed  or  elected  within two years of such
    10  appointment or election and every two years thereafter.  Such visitation
    11  requirement shall be in addition to  the  requirements  pursuant  to  22
    12  NYCRR section 17.1.
    13    2.  Within  six  months  of  a  visit  to the correctional facility as
    14  required by subdivision one of this section, the justice or judge  shall
    15  prepare  a  report  on  the conditions of such correctional facility and
    16  submit such report to the clerk of the court of appeals. Such conditions
    17  shall include, but not be limited to the welfare of  incarcerated  indi-
    18  viduals,  healthcare  provided  to  incarcerated  individuals,  sanitary
    19  conditions in the correctional facility  and  any  disciplinary  actions
    20  against employees of the correctional facility and incarcerated individ-
    21  uals.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03150-01-3